UHAB, HPD
The negative reaction to the city's proposed new regulatory agreement is understandable. But so is the case for moving to preserve a vital affordable-housing resource.
Income-restricted cooperatives comprise some 30,000 apartments in more than 1,300 formerly abandoned or distressed multi-family buildings. The city’s proposed regulations to stabilize this key affordable-housing stock have met with opposition—some of it misinformed.
Friends mourn the loss of one of the pioneers of urban homesteading.
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